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The Jerusalem Conference
January 26-28, 2009
Shvat 1-3, 5769
Regency Hotel, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem
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5th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
After The Winograd Commission:
Where Are We Going?
Celebrating The 60th Anniversary Of The State Of Israel & The 40th Year Of Reunited
Jerusalem, Israel’s Eternal Capital
 First DayTuesday, Feb. 19, 2008

9:30 Morning Sessions Greetings and Opening Remarks:Robert Rechnitz - Chairman of the Jerusalem Conference Chief Rabbi of Israel (Ashkenazi) Yona Metzger -
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs - Tzipi Livni
10:15-11:45 Opening Session Jerusalem: Eternal Undivided Capital City - Definition of the Jewish State & NationIntroducing the Chair: Alexander Machkevitch - Pres., EAJCParticipants:Chairman: MK. Gidon Saar - Chairman Likud Knesset Faction - Ambassador Dr. Dore Gold - Pres., Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
- Dr. Eilat Mazar - Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University, Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center's Institute for the Archaeology of the Jewish People
- Prof. Eliav Shochetman - Professor, Shaarei Mishpat College of Law, Professor Emeritus Hebrew University Faculty of Law
- Jeffrey Ballabon - Director, Coordinating Council for Jerusalem
- Nir Barkat - Member, Jerusalem City Council
11:50-13:20 Iran, Syria, Lebanon & Gaza: Regional & Global Strategic Threat - Drawing Red Lines & Required ResponsesParticipants:Chairman: Major General (res.) Yaakov Amidror - VP of the Lander Institute, formerly head of the IDF National Defense College and IDF Intelligence Research Division - Major General (res.) Yom Tov Samiah - former CO IDF Southern Command
- Dr. Meyrav Wurmser - Director, Center for Middle East Policy, Hudson Institute in Washington, DC
- Prof. Raphael Israeli - Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University
- Rear Admiral Norman T. Saunders, USCG (ret.) - Former CO US Coast Guard
11:50-13:20 Aliya – Is It Still Vital To Israel?Participants:Chairman: MK Yuli-Yoel Edelstein - former Minister of Immigrant Absorption - Rabbi Shalom Gold - Rabbi of Kehilat Zichron Yosef ,Jerusalem, and Founder and Dean of the Avrom Silver College and Center for Jewish Unity
- Rabbi Shlomo Bakst - - Chairman Tikva Organization (Odessa)
- Michael Freund - Founder and Chairman of Shavei Israel
- Ambassador Danny Ayalon - Co-Chairman of Nefesh B’Nefesh
- Yishai Fleisher - Program Director of Israel National Radio & Founder of "Kumah" Aliyah Movement
11:50-13:20 Social-Economic Welfare: Defining the Problem & Traditional ResponsesParticipants:Chairman: MK Gilad Erdan - - (Likud Party)' Chairman Knesset Economic Affaris Committee - Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon - - Rabbi of Alon Shvut South & Chairman of "Ta'asuKatif"
- Uriel Lederberg - - Chairman, Pa'amonim Organization
- Noam Bedein - - Sderot Media Center
- Daniel Doron - Director, Israel Center for Social & Economic Progress (ICSEP)
- Itai Shonshein - - Chairman, National Union of Israeli Students
13:30 Noon Session Speakers: US Senator Sam Brownback - (R-KN) Hon. Natan Sharansky - Chairman, Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies and Chairman, One Jerusalem
14:45-16:30 Afternoon Sessions Do Israel, the United States and the West Face World War III?Participants:Chairman: Shoshana Bryen - Director, Special Projects, JINSA, Washington DC - Prof. Uzi Arad - Director, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya
- Major General Harley C. Davis (ret.) - former CO of US Special Forces Command
- Major General Bradley Mark Lott, USMC (ret) - Former Commander of the Marine Warfighting Center
- Shabtai Shavit, - Former Director General of the Mossad, Chairman of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya
14:45-16:30 Afternoon Sessions Palestinian Media, Education & the View from IsraelParticipants:Chairman: Dr. Uzi Landau - Former MK & Minister of Public Security - Itamar Marcus - Director, Palestinian Media Watch
- Pinchas Inbari - Journalist, Arab & Palestinian Affairs
- Morton Klein - President, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)
- Daniel Seaman - Director, Israel Government Press Office
- Lt. Colonel (res.) Dr. Anat Berko - Research Fellow, IDC International Institute for Counter-Terrorism
16:30-18:00 The Forgotten “Other Refugees” – Jews From Arab CountriesParticipants:Chairman: Hon. Yossi Ben Aharon - former Director General of the Prime Minister's Office - MP Prof. Irwin Cotler - Member of Parliament; Former Justice Minister, Canada
- Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Zinni - Rabbi, Techinion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
- MK Eli Gabai - (Ichud Leumi-Mafdal)
- Prof. Shimon Shitrit - Dean, Sacher Institute for Law Research, Hebrew University, former MK & Minister (Labor Party)
16:30-18:00 Late Afternoon Sessions Israel’s Growing Role On The World’s Economic StageParticipants:Chairman: Harvey Werblowsky - President, Power Legal Support, Inc. - Yaakov Neeman Esq. - Former Finance Minister
- Ken Abramowitz - Managing Partner and co-founder of NGN Capital
- Prof. Israel "Izzy" Borovich - Chairman, El Al Israel Airlines
- Eli Kazhdan - CEO, CityBook Services Ltd. (for US real estate market)
18:00-20:00 The Winograd Commission: Ethics & Responsibility in Israeli PoliticsParticipants:Chairman: Judge Tzvi Tal - Supreme Court Justice (ret.) - Rabbi Dr. Nachum Rabinowitz - Rosh Yeshivat Hesder "Birkat Moshe"
- Major General (res.) Uzi Dayan - former Dep. Chief of Staff & head of NSC
- Major (res.) Yakir Segev - leader of Post-Second Lebanon War protest movement
- Yisrael Harel - Chairman, Institute for Zionist Strategies
- MK Col. (res.) Otniel Shneller - Deputy Speaker of the Knesset (Kadimah)
- MK Gilad Erdan - - (Likud Party)' Chairman Knesset Economic Affaris Committee
22:00-23:00 Concert for students
 Second DayWednesday, Feb. 20, 2008
9:30 Morning sessions Greetings and Opening Remarks:Robert Rechnitz - Chairman of the Jerusalem Conference
Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar - Rishon Lezion, Chief Sefardi Rabbi of Israel
9:45-11:30 General Session Jerusalem: The Temple Mount and the Future of JerusalemParticipants:Chairman: Yechiel Leiter - Senior Policy Researcher - the Jerusalem Center for Public & State Affairs - Nadav Shragai - Journalist and author - Haaretz newspaper
- Hon. Yoram Ettinger - former Minister for Congressional Affairs to Israel's Embassy in Washington, DC
- MK Rabbi Meir Porush - (United Torah Judaism Party)
- Rabbi Yisrael Ariel - Founder of The Temple Institute, Jerusalem
- Nissim Arazi - Director, Jewish Quarter Development Corp.
- Dani Dayan - Chairman, Yesha Council
11:45-13:15 Late Morning Sessions Defensible Borders in the Age of MissilesParticipants:Chairman: MK Yisrael Katz - Former Minister of Agriculture (Likud) - Brigadier General (res.) Binyamin Ben Eliezer - Minister of National Infrastructure (Labor Party)
- MK Brigadier General (res.) Effie Eitam - (National Union Party)
- Uzi Rubin - former head of Israel's Arrow-Homa Anti-Missile Defense Program
- Arie Stav - Director, Ariel Center for Policy Research
- Dan Diker - Project Director, Defensible Borders Initiative; Senior Policy Analyst, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
11:45-13:15 The New Anti-Semitism: NGO’s, the Campus Confrontation and Preparing for Durban IISpeaker: Minister Yitzhak Herzog - Minister of the Diaspora, Society and the Fight against Anti-SemitismParticipants:Chairman: Prof. Gerald Steinberg - Professor of Political Studies, Bar Ilan University - Prof. Robert S. Wistrich - Director, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism, Hebrew University
- Prof. Anne Bayefsky - Sen. Fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington DC, Dir., Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust
- Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld - Chairman, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
- Rabbi Abraham Cooper - Associate Dean, The Simon Wiesenthal Center and The Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles
- Charles Jacobs - Founder & Director, The David Project Center for Jewish Leadership
13:30 Speakers: MK Benjamin Netanyahu - Likud Party Leader and Leader of the Opposition; Former Prime Minister (via video) US Senator James Inhofe - (R-OK) (via video) US Senator Joseph Lieberman - (I-CT)
14:45-16:45 Afternoon Sessions Israel’s Strategic & Tactical Defense: Defining IDF Doctrine, Goals & Deterrence CapabilitiesParticipants:Chairman: Col. (res.) Dr. Eiran Lerman - Director, Jerusalem Office of the American Jewish Committee - Major General (ret.) Yossi Peled - former CO IDF Northern Command
- Major General (ret.) Doron Almog - former CO IDF Southern Command
- Brigadier General (ret.) MK Prof. Aryeh Eldad - former IDF Chief Medical Officer
- Major General (res.) Eitan Ben-Eliahu - former CO Israel Air Force
14:45-16:45 Israel’s Hasbara: The War of Words - Just Confused or Deliberately Non-Existent?Participants:Chairman: Caroline Glick - Dep. Managing Editor & Columnist, The Jerusalem Post - Elyakim HaEtzni Esq. - former MK
- Tzafrir Ronen - Israel Nahalal Forum
- Nitzana Darshan-Leitner Esq. - Founder & Director, Shurat Hadin Israel Law Center
- Melanie Phillips - Journalist and Author, Columnist for Daily Mail
- Isi Leibler - Chairman, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs’ Diaspora-Israel relations committee.
17:00-19:00 Late Afternoon Sessions Israel and the Media: Is Coverage Fair & Accurate?Participants:Chairman: Justice (ret.) Dalia Dorner - President, Israel Press Council - Prof. Eli Pollak - Chairman, Israel Media Watch
- Jeff Jacoby - Columnist, The Boston Globe
- Prof. Richard Landes - Professor of History, Boston University
- Daniel Ben-Simon - Journalist, Haaretz newspaper
- Amnon Lord - Editor, Makor Rishon newspaper
- Roz Rothstein - Director, StandWithUs
17:00-19:00 Late Afternoon Sessions Global Economic Stability & Funding TerrorismParticipants:Chairman: Major (res.) Ayub Kara - former MK & Member of Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee (Likud) - Dr. Martin Sherman - Research Fellow, International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT)
- Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld - Director, American Center for Democracy and the Center for the Study of Corruption & the Rule of Law, NY
- Dr. Lt. Colonel (res.) Gal Luft - Executive Director, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS), Washington, DC
19:30 Closing Session The "Jerusalem Address"
Speaker:
Professor Bernard Lewis - Professor Emeritus, Princeton University
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